I International Colloquium on Luso-Brazilian Art and Literature

Sponsors at Harvard: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Nacy Clack Smith Proffessorship, The Robert C. Smith Jr. Fund

Co-Sponsors at Harvard: Department of History, Department of Comparative Literature, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

Please find the program attached. It contains many talks pertaining to the early modern world: 

Sept 18, 2:00-3:45pm
SESSION 1
Josiah Blackmore (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)
The Peripatetic Polo: Travel and Translation in Sixteenth-Century Portugal
Pedro Flor (UNIVERSIDADE ABERTA DE LISBOA)
From Nuno Gonçalves to António de Holanda: the representation of
figures of alterity in the Renaissance in Portugal
Moderator: Doris Sommer (Harvard University)
Location: CGIS South Room S216

4:15-6:00pm
SESSION 2
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz (UNIVERSIDADE DE SAO PAULO and PRINCETON UNIVERSITY)
A river called Atlantic: art and activism in Brazil
Tamar Herzog (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)
Tombos: How registering rights became Normative in medieval and early modern Portugal and Why it Faltered in the Nineteenth Century
Moderator. Mariano Siskind (Harvard University)
Location: CGIS South Room S216

6:30-8:15pm
SESSION 3
Juliano Gomes (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)
Artistic genius under dispute during the Portuguese Enlightenment: the quarrel between Machado de Castro and Bartolomeu da Costa
Sidney Chalhoub (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)
Recourse to History in Machado de Assis's Esaú e Jacó
Moderator: Cristiane Soares (Harvard University)
Location: CGIS South Room S216